Not only robots.txt, but I've encountered sites that if you were to attempt to read the Google Cache with Javascript enabled, it would redirect you to their live site. Usually this happens in the form of frameset redirection scripts, but there were cases where it would redirect you to the site's front page. In those latter cases, it often means that all external links to any page on those sites would redirect to the front page (anti-deep-linking).
also inclines on a 90-degree angle, with a hard surface below for the Phantom Mouse."
90 degrees is a bit excessive. I have yet to see an image of the keyboard with the board and pad perpendicular; most places have it titled only slightly upwards. Perhaps they meant a 45-degree angle.
For instance one thing that surprised me was that the <title> is more popular than <br>
I'm not surprised. The TITLE container is required for every HTML page to be considered valid across all versions and is the most important text on the page, used by search engines to link to the page. Though browsers will accept pages without it, you'd be a damn fool not to use it.
BR is optional and generally unnecessary when P handles your general hard line breaking needs. Even with TITLE being once, only once, and no less than once per page while there can be several BR tags on a page, BR is generally omissable. I'd expect overuse of BR to be more common on blogs that don't bother to detect paragraphs.
Now if it were TITLE vs. TR there'd be no contest.
Or an open-air barbeque license. They say you can't breathe the air in Texas and still claim to be a vegetarian what with all the meat particles from backyard barbequeing. There's gotta be tax revenue in that.
So if you say backup a DVD under fair use, if you didn't break the encryption to do so (like if it was unencrypted or you simply ran a cable from your video card's output to input and recorded) the DMCA doesn't enter the picture.
So maybe it isn't DMCA (was it a DVD? was the Macrovision bit set? is defeating the Macrovision bit the same as defeating the Broadcast Flag? will we ever know?) and thus not criminal.
But can you really say that making multiple complete perfect copies for your employees to review on their own time (off the clock!) is a necessary exercise of fair use when they had the option to call the employees in to take notes during a special screening in a conference room without making any copies at all?
Was the original even theirs to keep or just a loaned copy for the contracted purpose of rating the feature?
I could get behind them making one copy for their lawyers.
It shouldn't be necessary to make a copy for each employee. They could call everyone into a conference room and show the movie to them all at once, each person taking notes, or have management identify each employee and call them in to private screenings, all from the one copy.
Distribution to employees and distribution to your legal team are two different things.
BTW, even if the movie was a burned DVD incapable of being encrypted by CSS rather than pressed which can be, it could still have been protected by Macrovision preventing analog copies. Typical DVD ripping software automatically presumes you want to remove Macrovision protection. The protection is still a digital bit that instructs the player to employ Macrovision copy protection on playback.
But I'm really not approaching this as a way to look at art that says games are art, I'm starting from the premise that games are art and showing some areas in which they are common. I jumped in to counter that the measure of art is not beauty.
If you're looking for a definition, perhaps one should start with what art is not. Though even then one could come up with a counter-argument, or counter-work-of-art. E.g. if interactivity excludes games from art, I counter John Cage's 4'33" where it is the sounds created by the listeners that is the true performance. (4'33" isn't just cat/dev/zero >/dev/audio for 273 seconds.)
Perhaps the definition of art is like the old saw about the definition of pornography: you know it when you perceive it. I perceive the quality known as art as part of the form of games. (It sure is hard to write that so as to exclude misinterpretations (art in games vs. games as art) in English and not come off as pretentious.) A debate on the issue with examples and counterexamples would be endless. Even if one thought pornography and art were exclusive categories, one could still incorporate pornography into another work and have the whole become art.
Someone suggested a live observation of a sunset is not art. I presume that that is because it is a natural phenomenon not crafted by man. Yet man chooses the vantage point from which to observe it and at what time of the year. Especially if he had to construct that ideal vantage point to achieve the effect. As much art as David Copperfield placing an audience in just the right position to achieve the illusion of making the Statue of Liberty disappear.
When people said the way the porn industry goes determines the winner in the hi-def DVD format war, I said the porn industry is quite capable of going both ways and a few others besides. Nice to see it going just as I predicted.
I want a mod that turns all the graphics greyscale, makes some (but not all) characters look like alien zombies, and replaces all in-game ads with generic billboards saying things like, "OBEY" and "STAY ASLEEP".
First of all, the "not always on" argument only applies if you sometimes use your computer without being connected to the net. I know I never do.
And even if you did, the same "protection" you get from not-always-on can be emulated with broadband by unplugging yourself from the net when you don't need it. (I don't need the Internet while doing time-consuming two-pass encoding of DV-format video into MPEG-2.) And that protection you can get without physically yanking the connection by having a firewall.
The truly paranoid can wire up a dead man's switch to the connection so that one is only on-line when one holds down the button, though one would also want to avoid using services that require a long-term connection.
Oh come on, why doesn't it support Illinois? Chicago is one of the biggest cities in the world, yet we get excluded... They forgot New York even! Bah...
Because there are no Senators from those states on the Senate Commerce Committee before which hearings on the bill will be brought on Tuesday.
Art is anything which invokes a sense of beauty in the observer.
Art can also invoke a sense of revulsion in the observer, such as Man Ray's "The Gift"--a flat iron with nails protruding from its flat surface--when presented as being for ironing the great paintings in the Louvre (i.e. shredding them).
Art is evocative. It produces an emotional reaction. Games exist in the realm of interactive artwork, and as they involve the viewer they can evoke more emotional reactions than a static work. When was the last time someone orther than the artist looked at a sculpture and felt the euphoria of personal achievement?
Art needs not be a success nor a failure to the masses to still be considered art. Even an artist claiming his own works of art are not art can be an artistic expression.
Others might say art is only art if it is pretentious.
Personally, I'd rather have them releaced under public domain.
Indeed, I'd rather see Jobs using his newfound power to leverage Disney into ceasing its never-ending extensions of copyright duration and instead work to curtail them, preferably to something sub-life of the work itself.
And the parent's observation, found on the second page of the article (why two pages?), is really the only thing new about the story since the last time. No solution yet proposed, only to emphasize the importance of a solution.
But I'm sure some spacefaring governments will say that any attempt to reduce the problem will be countered by additional debris contibuted by more launches and so it isn't worth doing anything to resolve, nor to continue efforts to not exacerbate the problem (the "Who cares; we're already doomed" policy).
My understanding of the incident was a software upgade to a router that "self-propagated" to update other routes of the same type... or some server somewhere that updated them on a scheduled rollout or something.
Could anybody ever have a rational conversation with you where at the end you would say "No, you're right, your life sucks so much you should kill yourself", other than perhaps somebody who is terminally ill already?
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Great, now I'll have to go back to needing Relacore to reduce my Cortisol.
Not only robots.txt, but I've encountered sites that if you were to attempt to read the Google Cache with Javascript enabled, it would redirect you to their live site. Usually this happens in the form of frameset redirection scripts, but there were cases where it would redirect you to the site's front page. In those latter cases, it often means that all external links to any page on those sites would redirect to the front page (anti-deep-linking).
also inclines on a 90-degree angle, with a hard surface below for the Phantom Mouse."
90 degrees is a bit excessive. I have yet to see an image of the keyboard with the board and pad perpendicular; most places have it titled only slightly upwards. Perhaps they meant a 45-degree angle.
For instance one thing that surprised me was that the <title> is more popular than <br>
I'm not surprised. The TITLE container is required for every HTML page to be considered valid across all versions and is the most important text on the page, used by search engines to link to the page. Though browsers will accept pages without it, you'd be a damn fool not to use it.
BR is optional and generally unnecessary when P handles your general hard line breaking needs. Even with TITLE being once, only once, and no less than once per page while there can be several BR tags on a page, BR is generally omissable. I'd expect overuse of BR to be more common on blogs that don't bother to detect paragraphs.
Now if it were TITLE vs. TR there'd be no contest.
Bethesda has now confirmed it owns the game license for all television and movie incarnations of the science fiction series.
So the game license for stage incarnations is still up for grabs?
Star Trek: The Interactive Musical !
Or an open-air barbeque license. They say you can't breathe the air in Texas and still claim to be a vegetarian what with all the meat particles from backyard barbequeing. There's gotta be tax revenue in that.
So in which gulf-coastal city will the cola party be held? How does Galveston sound?
So if you say backup a DVD under fair use, if you didn't break the encryption to do so (like if it was unencrypted or you simply ran a cable from your video card's output to input and recorded) the DMCA doesn't enter the picture.
So maybe it isn't DMCA (was it a DVD? was the Macrovision bit set? is defeating the Macrovision bit the same as defeating the Broadcast Flag? will we ever know?) and thus not criminal.
But can you really say that making multiple complete perfect copies for your employees to review on their own time (off the clock!) is a necessary exercise of fair use when they had the option to call the employees in to take notes during a special screening in a conference room without making any copies at all?
Was the original even theirs to keep or just a loaned copy for the contracted purpose of rating the feature?
I could get behind them making one copy for their lawyers.
It shouldn't be necessary to make a copy for each employee. They could call everyone into a conference room and show the movie to them all at once, each person taking notes, or have management identify each employee and call them in to private screenings, all from the one copy.
Distribution to employees and distribution to your legal team are two different things.
BTW, even if the movie was a burned DVD incapable of being encrypted by CSS rather than pressed which can be, it could still have been protected by Macrovision preventing analog copies. Typical DVD ripping software automatically presumes you want to remove Macrovision protection. The protection is still a digital bit that instructs the player to employ Macrovision copy protection on playback.
There used to be a company called "321 Studios" that sold backup software. Guess what happened to them?
Without sales of their software they couldn't afford to defend it. It had nothing to do with the merits.
321 Studios also sold/gave their mailing list to another company.
The DMCA retains fair use in name but not in practice due to its outright ban on the dissemination of tools necessary to exercise fair use.
You can decrypt DVDs for your own fair use only if you independently create your own tools to do so. This is how it "retains" fair use.
But I'm really not approaching this as a way to look at art that says games are art, I'm starting from the premise that games are art and showing some areas in which they are common. I jumped in to counter that the measure of art is not beauty.
/dev/zero >/dev/audio for 273 seconds.)
If you're looking for a definition, perhaps one should start with what art is not. Though even then one could come up with a counter-argument, or counter-work-of-art. E.g. if interactivity excludes games from art, I counter John Cage's 4'33" where it is the sounds created by the listeners that is the true performance. (4'33" isn't just cat
Perhaps the definition of art is like the old saw about the definition of pornography: you know it when you perceive it. I perceive the quality known as art as part of the form of games. (It sure is hard to write that so as to exclude misinterpretations (art in games vs. games as art) in English and not come off as pretentious.) A debate on the issue with examples and counterexamples would be endless. Even if one thought pornography and art were exclusive categories, one could still incorporate pornography into another work and have the whole become art.
Someone suggested a live observation of a sunset is not art. I presume that that is because it is a natural phenomenon not crafted by man. Yet man chooses the vantage point from which to observe it and at what time of the year. Especially if he had to construct that ideal vantage point to achieve the effect. As much art as David Copperfield placing an audience in just the right position to achieve the illusion of making the Statue of Liberty disappear.
supporting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
When people said the way the porn industry goes determines the winner in the hi-def DVD format war, I said the porn industry is quite capable of going both ways and a few others besides. Nice to see it going just as I predicted.
I want a mod that turns all the graphics greyscale, makes some (but not all) characters look like alien zombies, and replaces all in-game ads with generic billboards saying things like, "OBEY" and "STAY ASLEEP".
First of all, the "not always on" argument only applies if you sometimes use your computer without being connected to the net. I know I never do.
And even if you did, the same "protection" you get from not-always-on can be emulated with broadband by unplugging yourself from the net when you don't need it. (I don't need the Internet while doing time-consuming two-pass encoding of DV-format video into MPEG-2.) And that protection you can get without physically yanking the connection by having a firewall.
The truly paranoid can wire up a dead man's switch to the connection so that one is only on-line when one holds down the button, though one would also want to avoid using services that require a long-term connection.
Art is evocative. It produces an emotional reaction.
"So does terrorism. Is that, then, art?"
Food is edible. Play-Doh is edible. Is Play-Doh food?
Instead of Play-Doh, substitute people.
Does any of this disprove that food is edible?
Oh come on, why doesn't it support Illinois? Chicago is one of the biggest cities in the world, yet we get excluded... They forgot New York even! Bah...
Because there are no Senators from those states on the Senate Commerce Committee before which hearings on the bill will be brought on Tuesday.
So I don't need Relacore?
Art is anything which invokes a sense of beauty in the observer.
Art can also invoke a sense of revulsion in the observer, such as Man Ray's "The Gift"--a flat iron with nails protruding from its flat surface--when presented as being for ironing the great paintings in the Louvre (i.e. shredding them).
Art is evocative. It produces an emotional reaction. Games exist in the realm of interactive artwork, and as they involve the viewer they can evoke more emotional reactions than a static work. When was the last time someone orther than the artist looked at a sculpture and felt the euphoria of personal achievement?
Art needs not be a success nor a failure to the masses to still be considered art. Even an artist claiming his own works of art are not art can be an artistic expression.
Others might say art is only art if it is pretentious.
In other words, a beatiful sunset is not art
Tell that to the Magratheans.
Personally, I'd rather have them releaced under public domain.
Indeed, I'd rather see Jobs using his newfound power to leverage Disney into ceasing its never-ending extensions of copyright duration and instead work to curtail them, preferably to something sub-life of the work itself.
And the parent's observation, found on the second page of the article (why two pages?), is really the only thing new about the story since the last time. No solution yet proposed, only to emphasize the importance of a solution.
But I'm sure some spacefaring governments will say that any attempt to reduce the problem will be countered by additional debris contibuted by more launches and so it isn't worth doing anything to resolve, nor to continue efforts to not exacerbate the problem (the "Who cares; we're already doomed" policy).
Note to self: X marks the spot NOT to dig.
My understanding of the incident was a software upgade to a router that "self-propagated" to update other routes of the same type... or some server somewhere that updated them on a scheduled rollout or something.
And the event was later adapted into an episode of Stargate SG-1 ?
Could anybody ever have a rational conversation with you where at the end you would say "No, you're right, your life sucks so much you should kill yourself", other than perhaps somebody who is terminally ill already?
That depends. How long until they respawn?